Bug#921840: metar: Parsing metar record fails due to changes in NOAA API

Kees, ping!

On Sat, 09 Feb 2019, Sven Paulus wrote:

> * What led up to the situation?
>
> On February 4th the "metar" tool stopped working.
> At this point NOAA switched responding on their HTTP URL with metar data
> to returning a redirect to the HTTPS variante of the URL.

> Hi Kees,
>
> I took the liberty to upload metar_20190227.1-1, based upon what's currently
> in the github repository. Because of the time contrains I took some
> shortcuts.
>
> I'll mail you the relevant patch soonish: it'd be helpful
> if you could keep it in your repository.
>
> Thanks, Bye,
>
> Joost